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Show AN INTELLIGENT MULE. Gave Warning of Danger in a Mine. . The mine mule knows a thing or two quits as well as does the army mule. In one of the mines in the Pittaburg district an ever-patient mule proved , himself possessed of an almost human- j sense of coming danger. A chamber had been closed on account of gas. ' and the men were thinking of what ; that might mean, when suddenly there " came a clatter of hoofs, arid a mule . , appeared its long ears quivering, and its intelligent eyes full of terror. i It gave a shrill bray, and then was ; gone down the entry, broken traces s flying after it. The. men. with one im- ! pulse dropping picks, made a headlong ' V dash for the open air. With scared : - faces other miners joined, and white ; . they were wondering what it all ; meant, a dull, deep explosion went rumbling through the hollow back of ; them, followed by wave on wave of noxious vapors. When the bodies of ; the few poor men who had been hopelessly hope-lessly entrapped were recovered, an- other was tenderly carried out with ; theirs that of the little gray mule that sounded the warning. |
